June 2024 Breakfast

Join us on Thursday, 20th June for our upcoming breakfast, being held at the brand new venue 'The Homestead', a 'Queenslander' inspired wedding & events venue, nestled among lush trees within the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary.

We are delighted to have John Warn, CEO of Experience Gold Coast as our special guest speaker for the morning. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear about the vision of Experience Gold Coast and the benefits in store for the Southern Gold Coast businesses and community. As CEO of Experience Gold Coast, John's insights will be invaluable and will assist in exploring opportunities within the tourism and events sector.

Key Speaker:

John Warn, CEO of Experience Gold Coast

John is the Chief Executive Officer for Experience Gold Coast - a recently established new entity focused on driving tourism, events, arts and culture, and education outcomes for the City of Gold Coast. John has had an extensive executive and non-executive career across Hospitality, sport, tourism, executive search, business consulting, and in the retail property sector spanning over 25 years. He has held senior roles with global hotel chain Accor as COO - Pacific, executive search firm Odgers Berndtson, and Westfield (Scentre Group) at Group Executive level. He has worked for other iconic Australian brands including David Jones and Westpac, and earlier in his career worked in investment banking in the UK.

has held a number of non-executive roles. He presently sits on the Stadiums Queensland Board, charged with the management of major sports venues including Olympic venues, the Gabba, Suncorp and others on behalf of the Qld State Government. Formerly based in Sydney, he is the immediate past Chairman of the NSW Government’s lead tourism agency Destination NSW, and was also the youngest ever Chairman of Cricket NSW, a role he held from early 2013 to June 2018. He also served on the Bradman Foundation as Deputy Chairman from 2019 to 2022.

John completed the esteemed Stanford Executive Program (SEP) at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, in Silicon Valley, California, USA. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Managers and Leaders, a Fellow of the Customer Service Institute of Australia and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.